Facing buildings



M.B. DYO,TT. FACING 0R VENEERING BUILDINGS.

No. 9,937, Patented Aug. 16 185 3.

UNITED STATES. PATENT OFFICE.

MICHAEL B. DYOTT, OE PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

FACING- BUILDINGS.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 9,937, dated August 16, 1853.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MICHAEL B. Dxo'r'r, of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Facing or Veneering Buildings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents a portion of a front or side of an ordinary brick-building partly covered with an ornamental metallic facing (the subject 'of my improvement) and exhibiting the projecting hooks or fastenings which hold in part the facings to the wall. Fig. 2 is a vertical section through the line OO Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detached interior view of one of the facing-plates B.

The nature of my invention consists in an improved mode of uniting fastening and supporting cast iron or other plates to the external walls of buildings, whereby the said plates form an ornamental facing thereto, are protected against external injury and secured from the injurious and disfiguring effects of moisture from the interior.

To all whom it may concern I will proceed fully to describe my improvement.

A is the front or other exterior wall of a brick-building which it is designed to face or veneer with ornamental. cast iron plates B of any appropriate size and having any desired architectural design on their exterior: these plates are fitted to the wall at some little distance from it so as to leave a space between them and the wall to which they may be hung by spikes or hooks a a, the plates having an interior loop Z) that hitch thcreoii, each plate being further held by projections c c which enter at the back of the next adjoining plate or plates below it; or any other form of fastenings may be used to hold the plates vertical to and parallel with the wall at the requisite distance from it for a sufficient body of cement to be filled in between the wall and the plates to adhere the latter to the former, exclude damp from oxidizing the interior of the plates and dis figuring their faces, also to give them a firm back or bed which will protect them from injury by external violence and whereby they may be made of very thin and light construction. The plates when hung to the wall adjoin one another, and by the molded devices on their exterior beautify the outside appearance of the building. Dilapidated buildings may be thus veneered or faced more ornamentally and at a. cheaper cost than by the ordinary stucco, stone fac- (also strengthening and protecting) the plates, as described. New buildings of frame or other descriptions may be thus faced and protected against fire from adjoining dwellings. One pattern, it is obvious, may serve to cast the several plates from, whereby an elegance of design may be given to the building or any architectural style adopted, at a very insignificant expense.

By the manner herein described of securing, through suitable cement, the plates to the walls, a much more durable and impene trable facing is produced and lighter castings made available than by other modes of attachment. The castings being thus of light construction are cheap, on account of the quantity of material employed, may be made smoother and more ornamental than is the case with heavy plates, and are more readily and cheaply transportable for building purposes, also reduce labor in the erection of them.

This method of facing, though simple, is highly important and may be applied to great advantage for ornamenting and protecting store fronts and otherwise facing different edifices.

I do not claim the facing or securing of stone to the surface of buildings in any manner or by any means whatever, nor embedding any other substance in mortar or cement upon the surface of walls, neither do I claim the facing of brick walls with iron or other plates by building them in mortar with the wall and fastening them by bolts or ties, as I am aware that these things have before been done, but

WVhat I do claim as new anduseful and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is+

The method herein described of supporting a veneering or facing of thin cast iron or other plates upon their inside, and uniting the same firmly With the external surface of the building by so fixing the plates in relation to the Wall as to leave a suflicient space between them, to allow a cement in a liquid form to be poured in, to fill the-space and all the interstices of the plate perfectly, solidify around and upon the hooks and 10 other fastenings, exclude the air and all dampness whereby the Veneering' is strengthened, protected and preserved as fully set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto signed my name before tWo subscribing Wit- 15 nesses.

MICHAEL B. DYOTT. Vitnesses:

CHARLES D. FREEMAN, CHAS. I. DOBSON. 

